Episode Details

On January 17, 2001, Alex Algeri walked out of a fitness club in Amityville, New York — and never made it to his car. He was shot multiple times in the parking lot, leaving behind a community in shock and investigators with almost nothing to work with. Al had no enemies. No debts. No criminal history. By every account, he was exactly who he appeared to be: a good man in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Except the place wasn't wrong. The man was.

Al Algeri was never the target. His business partner Paul Riedel was — and the woman behind the plot was Paul's own wife, Lee Ann Riedel, who had enlisted her lover, Ralph "Rocco" Salierno, to make sure her husband never came home. What they got instead was an innocent man's blood on a parking lot in Long Island, and a murder-for-hire conspiracy that began to unravel almost immediately.

In this episode of Hitched 2 Homicide, we walk through the full story: the shooting, the investigation, the love triangle that sparked it, and the courtroom reckoning that followed. This one hits differently — because Al Algeri didn't just die at the hands of killers. He died because someone wanted to get rid of their spouse and didn't care who paid the price.

️Content warning: graphic violence, murder, and themes of marital betrayal.

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